Browsing Archive: September, 2010

To me, one of the coolest things about baking cookies from scratch is that once you have a basic cookie recipe, you can customize every batch you make by tweaking it. I love chocolate cookies, and I'm crazy about the crunchiness of m&ms baked into regular cookies. So when my friend had his birthday last week, I decided to take the chocolate and the crunch and combine them, using reese's pieces for a peanut buttery twist.

Since turning 21, the wild and crazy world of cooking with wine has been opened up for me. It still feels weird to walk into the wine section at the grocery store, as if I'm not supposed to be there. Putting a bottle (or box) of wine into my basket and carrying it to the checkout, then going through the checkout and actually being allowed to carry the wine out of the store seems somehow wrong to me. But that didn't stop me from going out and buying wine a few days ago.